Cotton-press



(No Model.)

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I COTTON PRESS. No. 247,909. Patented 001;. 4,1881;

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FRANK HAYNES, OF MQNTIGELLO, ARKANSAS.

,COTTON-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,909, dated October4, 1881.

Application filed May 14, 1881. (No model.)

Cotton-Presses; and I do, hereby declare thatthe following is a full,clear, and exact descrip tion of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure l is a vertical section of the device. Fig. 2 is a detail.

Thisinvention has relation to cotton-presses; and it consists in theconstruction and novel arrangement in horizontal endwise relation of acotton-box having a presser-lid, and a hydraulic cylinder and follower,with other devices constituting a horizontallyacting bydraulic press,all as hereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents the sills orpillars to support the press, and B indicates the floor of thecottonbox.

G indicates the horizontal framing bars or beams, and D the upright barsor beams of the frame.

The stationary parts of the wall of the box are lettered E, and F is aremovable portion of the wall on each side over that portion of theinterior into which the cotton is finally compressed.

Below the niovable portion F of lhebox-wall, and between this portionand the floor of the box, is the door G, which is hingedat the endfarthest from the horizontally-moving follower L, and is provided at itsother end with a latch or catch adapted to be unfastened by the followerat the termination of its pressure movement, to allow the doors to open.The follower L is provided on its ends with pins or spikes l, which movein the side slots, 1, in the press, which slots are continued on intothe side doors. The letter grepresents a bar having the heads 9, whichlatter engage a stud, n, above the side doors, and a batten, n, on thebottom door, the body of the bar resting in grooves in such stud andbatten. As the follower comes designed to fit the interior of thecotton-box neatly; It is provided with upright rack-bars h, which engagethe pinions t on the shaft I, which is driven by suitable gearing, so asto be easily controlled. V

.K represents the abutment-block, arranged in upright position on thebed-framing opposite to the follower. It is firmly braced and bolted toresist the pressure. This block extends only high enough to correspondwith the thickness of the compressed bale, as shown in the drawings.Opposite the abutment K, and of a little less breadth and height, as itis designed to move-within the framing, is the follower. L, carried onthe end of the piston or, which Works within the cylinder 1)horizontally, and in endwise relation to the cottonbox. The feed-pipe ofthe hydraulic cylinder is'indicated at 0, but the pump and tank are notillustrated, as these parts are of ordinary Large iron bolts d areprovided construction. in the horizontal framing, extending from the endof the cylinder-frame to the abutmentblock, and serve to sustain the endpressure when the follower is moving toward the abutment-block. Theoperation of the press is as follows: After the bagging is adjusted onthe follower and abutment-block and the doors and removable portions ofthe box are placed in position, the cotton is thrown into the box, thelid being 00- casionally run down on it to put it in compact condition.When a sufficient quantity of cotton has been introduced the lid isbrought down to the press-line about even with or a little below thehorizontal tie-rods, which extend.- from the upper portion of thecylinderframe to the abutment-block, thereby exclud- 9 5 the pump set inaction to force the follow-block toward the farther portion of thepressure-box until it is brought home, loosening the fastenings of thedoors, which is a signal that the pressing is finished. The doors andportable parts of the box are then removed and the bale tied out asusual. The discharge-faucet is then turned on and the bale dropped tothe ground, ready to be rolled away.

It will be observed that in this press the direction of movement oraction of the compacting or stamping lid is at right angles to that ofthe follower-block, so that the operations of the two are conductedwithout interference.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cotton-press, the combination, with the cotton-box andhorizontal hydraulic cylinder 1), arranged in endwise relation to eachother, of the end abutment, K, the horizontallymoving follower L, piston11, and the verticallymoving compacting-lid H, substantially asspecified.

2. The combination of follower L, having pins 1, with locking-bars g,notched studs n, and'batten n, whereby the follower automaticallyreleases the doors, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed inynarnein the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK HAYNES.

Witnesses:

J. E. FARLEY, E. K. HAYNES.

